Person of Interest
Season 1, Ep. 16: Risk
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The Machine leads Reese and Finch to Wall Street when a sharp young trader at a major investment bank becomes embroiled in a multi-million dollar financial scam.
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Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line), Michael Emerson (Lost) and Taraji P. Henson (Hustle & Flow) team up in this thought-provoking crime action drama from The Dark Knight‘s Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions (Fringe, Lost, Alias).
Set in New York City, with all of its multifaceted elements of justice
(i.e., cops, criminals, corruption), this procedural centers on an
ex-CIA agent, presumed dead, who partners with a mysterious billionaire
to prevent violent crimes.
Using data siphoned off the United
States intelligence agencies’ threat matrix deemed irrelevant to
national security — information concerning not terrorism, but violent
crimes of a personal nature — the unpredictable former agent
Reese and his enigmatic partner, Finch, identify a “person of interest”
and set about solving the mystery of the impending crime that person
will be involved in. Tapping into the world’s Big Brother-like
surveillance network, the shadowy duo knows that something bad is going
to happen; it’s their mission to discover what that event will be …
and somehow prevent it.
Operating on a parallel track are New
York detectives Carter and the corrupt Fusco, who must enforce the law
while still abiding by it. Running counterpoint to Reese’s
unconventional yet effective methods, Carter strives not only to collar
criminals, but the evasive Reese as well. Inspired by the chilling
omnipresence of global surveillance and information tracking, PERSON OF INTEREST
delivers the familiar elements of a crime procedural in a heightened,
unpredictable manner — as Reese and Finch race to solve each crime
before it occurs.
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